This profile is part of the FACES of Flint & Genesee Business, a Q&A series highlighting different members and clients of the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce. To read other articles in this series, visit flintandgenesee.org/faces. Julie Lopez is a horticulturist at her core. She studied it in college and worked for 25 years […]

It’s time to light up Flint, and you can be part of it. The Michigan State Police Flint Post invites you to attend “Light Up the City” on Thursday, June 28 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Kearsley Park, 1700 Kearsley Park Blvd. This is a free event with food, entertainment and giveaways from […]

A vigilant community is a more vibrant one. Neighborhoods with watchful, active residents who look out for one another have been shown not only to be less impacted by crime, but to make themselves more attractive for investment and development. Flint’s dedicated community and residential associations help keep the city-at-large more enjoyable to its citizens, […]

There had been one too many drive-by shootings, one too many acts of violence, one too many people close to Kenyetta Dotson for her to just stay inert. Both her closest friend and her aunt were victims of gun violence in the recent past. Their deaths were the tipping point and all the motivation Dotson […]

As cities go, Flint has more than its fair share of neighborhood organizations, block clubs and concerned citizens who want nothing more than the growth and prosperity that has started to take hold to continue. Right alongside them are nonprofit organizations that are working to better the city. Primary among those is the Ruth Mott […]

Christmas is a tough time for kids who have a parent in jail. They often feel alone and are depressed. To help alleviate some of those feeling and show the children they are loved, the Stacy Swimp Evangelistic Association and Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle are partnering to reach out to children of the incarcerated and their families […]

Part of the drive of those in neighborhood associations and block clubs is their devotion to place. Those who have made Flint their home for some time understand that the answer to real change lies at a micro-level – meaning getting in there and getting things done. Carma Lewis, president of Flint Neighborhoods United (FNU), […]

Al Novak has been the lead chaplain in Genesee County for more than 32 years. He is a former officer who served on the metro Detroit police force for 17 years. Along with 27 active associate chaplains and more than 200 volunteers, he conducts a wide range of jail ministry programs at the Genesee County […]

He went down in a hail of gunfire. At 21, Leon Wilson’s life as a flashy drug dealer and partier, who’d just bought champagne from a Saginaw Street market, appeared near its end. He bled from his head and back, wounded by masked men in a drive-by. Two weeks later Wilson woke from a coma […]